Lesson 6 deploying error : Expected a value of type HttpNetworkConfig

[rainbowginger]

trying to deploy to sepolia network. but i cant get it to work. This is my deploy.js file

require("dotenv").config();

const SEPOLIA_RPC_URL = process.env.SEPOLIA_RPC_URL;
const SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY = process.env.SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY;
const SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID = process.env.SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID;
module.exports = {
    defaultNetwork: "hardhat",
    networks: {
        Sepolia: {
            url: SEPOLIA_RPC_URL,
            accounts: SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY,
            chainId: SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID,
        },
    },
    solidity: "0.8.18",
};

task("accounts", "Prints the list of accounts", async () => {
    const accounts = await ethers.getSigners();

    for (const account of accounts) {
        console.log(account.address);
    }
});

this is the error i am getting

• Invalid value {"url":"https://eth-sepolia.g.alchemy.com/v2/SYu8cyWG0EOfcfZVehXUoPMXW91om6Hd","accounts":"(private key here)","chainId":"11155111"} for HardhatConfig.networks.Sepolia - Expected a value of type HttpNetworkConfig.
• Invalid 'accounts' entry for network 'Sepolia': expected an array of accounts or the string 'remote', but got the string '(private key here)'

please help- search in google and discussions didnt help

[shubhaminit]

accounts: [PRIVATE_KEY],
use this bro

[rainbowginger]

Tried it. Didn't work

[alymurtazamemon]

@rainbowginger update it;

networks: {
    sepolia: {
        url: SEPOLIA_RPC_URL,
        accounts: [SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY],
        chainId: SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID,
    },
},

and make sure these variables are not undefined.

[rainbowginger]

How do u define it?

[rainbowginger]

@rainbowginger update it;

networks: {
    sepolia: {
        url: SEPOLIA_RPC_URL,
        accounts: [SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY],
        chainId: SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID,
    },
},

and make sure these variables are not undefined.
@alymurtazamemon i could make it work when i added the variables directly. Deploying using env variables is not working

require("dotenv").config();
// commented section is not working
// const SEPOLIA_RPC_URL = process.env.SEPOLIA_RPC_URL;
// const SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY = process.env.SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY;
// const SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID = process.env.SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID;
const SEPOLIA_RPC_URL =
    "https://eth-sepolia.g.alchemy.com/v2/SYu8cyWG0EOfcfZVehXUoPMXW91om6Hd";
const SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY =
    "**************************************";
const SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID = 11155111;
module.exports = {
    defaultNetwork: "hardhat",
    networks: {
        sepolia: {
            url: SEPOLIA_RPC_URL,
            accounts: [SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY],
            chainId: SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID,
        },
    },
    solidity: "0.8.18",
};

task("accounts", "Prints the list of accounts", async () => {
    const accounts = await ethers.getSigners();

    for (const account of accounts) {
        console.log(account.address);
    }
});

contents of .env file

SEPOLIA_RPC_URL=https://eth-sepolia.g.alchemy.com/v2/SYu8cyWG0EOfcfZVehXUoPMXW91om6Hd
SEPOLIA_PVT_KEY=***************************************************************
SEPOLIA_CHAIN_ID=11155111

[rainbowginger]

I am able to print the variables using console.log()

test.js

require("dotenv").config();

function main() {
    console.log(process.env.SEPOLIA_RPC_URL);
}
main();

but cant print in bash using echo

blue@DESKTOP-A6GBG6O:~/solidity/hardhat-sss$ echo $SEPOLIA_RPC_URL

blue@DESKTOP-A6GBG6O:~/solidity/hardhat-sss$ node test.js
https://eth-sepolia.g.alchemy.com/v2/SYu8cyWG0EOfcfZVehXUoPMXW91om6Hd```

[alymurtazamemon]

@rainbowginger Do you mean you want to pass your env variables through cli, right?

[rainbowginger]

no, thru .env
Will continue discussion thru the other thread where i shared my repo

[alymurtazamemon]

@rainbowginger Please do not create duplicate discussions.

For others: this discussion is answered here #5395

closing #5387